Judo

Today, on the 28th of October, we celebrate World Judo Day, the birth date of Jigoro Kano. The past month has been dedicated to the founder whereby we have brought the community together through channels […]

Athlete life isn’t very easy. Injuries belong to the sport, not just in this time and among all athletes not just the bad ones, also top athletes had to suffer a lot. Christian Raspiller spoke […]

This week the EJU Moral Code Cartoon will demonstrate ‘respect’ with the new video online. At the very heart of everything we do, we live the judo code. Respect is having the admiration for opponents, […]

Former IJF Head of Refereeing Jan Snijders was awarded the Anton Geesink award by the Dutch Judo Association. Anton Geesink was the first non-Asian who became world and Olympic judo champion in the heavyweight category. […]

Malaga continued to see some brilliant judo on the second day of the European Open and the athletes in the arena were really enjoying the event, supporting each and every contest, especially in the final […]

In 1964, Geesink was 30 years old. His first Olympic roll of the dice would also be his last. He knew this. The tall redwood of the kingdom of Orange had hoped to feature at […]